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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 August 1924, Page 9

The work of transporting the heavy machinery to be installed in the power house at Monowai has been carried out cruder considerable difficulty (states the Southland Times. Pieces weighing from 7 to 10 tons each had to be lowered down the cliff above the power house, a height of 00ft, and the fact of the work being carried out without any niislnns or breakages to the delicate electrical mechanism, says'much for the engineers in charge’ of the work.

“Are passengers . absent-minded ? Well, J should say they are,” stated a tram conductor to a representative of the Auckland Herald, in reply to a question. “They leave an extraordinary lot of things behind them—book's, gloves, umbrellas, baskets—there is no limit to what they will leave. I once knew of a baby being left behind by its mother, and in another case a mail left a box containing over £'4oo worth of jewellery. He went rushing round to the office for it in double-quick time, and then made a fuss about paying threepence, and as for the conductor, he didn’t oven got a ‘thank von’!”

Second marriages often cause queer muddles in the family circle. A Cor.sician girl recently ‘ married a man whose first wife was Hie sister of the girl’s grandmother. Consequently she is now her own mother’s grand-aunt and her grandmother’s sister-in-law. To her own brothers and sisters she is great-aunt. Finally, she is her own grand-niece. Her husband is the brother-in-law of his grand-nephews, and grand-nieces. A 60-year-old American startled his family bv becoming .the grandfather of six children, and i| his wile’s stepfather. Ho divorced his wife and married his mother-in-law.